Song of the Month

  • Gonna Take Us All
    Jon Fromer
    Feb 1 2012 - 12:01am

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    "But the people here at this festival, we're the keepers of the culture of struggle.... This is something really precious that we have to really build and spread.... It's gonna take us all.... And I think cultural workers and singers and artists are able to do that in a way that no one else is."

  • Our Problems Stem From Our Acceptance Of This Filthy Rotten System
    Charlie King, Karen Brandow
    Jan 1 2012 - 12:01am

    Eight years we bravely battled Bush,
    That smug, self-righteous frat boy on a bender.
    We marched against his endless war
    We rallied every race and class and gender....

  • The Whole Wide World Around
    Seattle Labor Chorus
    Dec 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Tom Glazer: "I wrote the ... song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity...."

  • Eight Hour Song
    Bucky Halker
    Nov 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Charles Haynes, a blind musician, wrote the first of many songs that voiced support for the eight-hour day in 1865.

  • I Am An Immigrant
    Jesse Palidofsky
    Oct 1 2011 - 12:01am

    I grew up in a working family, but they didn't talk about it. My grandfather from Poland was a coal miner and then an early UAW member.

  • Can You Hear?
    Terry Sherven
    Sep 1 2011 - 2:25pm

    Seeing the greed of the wealthy, and the demise of the middle class, while destroying right after right of labor, inspired this song.

  • A. Philip Randolph
    David Winters
    Aug 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Penetrating insights on Randolph's character and work.

  • I'm A Union Card
    Kenny Winfree
    Jul 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Kenny Winfree debuted this song at the Great Labor Song Exchange in 1984.

  • We Will Win
    David Rovics
    Jun 1 2011 - 12:01am

    A song for Wisconsin, and anywhere else people are fighting for their unions.

  • They Will Never Keep Us Down
    Hazel Dickens
    May 1 2011 - 12:01am

    Labor Notes mourns the passing in April of singer, songwriter, double bassist, and guitarist Hazel Dickens.